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TRAINING IN POSTHARVEST TECHNOLOGY Extension Systems International P.O. Box 3130 Quartzsite, Arizona 85359 USA Phone: (916) 708 7218 E-mail Us PostHarvest Training of Trainers Curriculum Vitae of Lisa Kitinoja Training Assistance Dr. Lisa Kitinoja is available via e-mail to serve as a mentor or advisor to young professionals, extension workers, farm advisors, and private consultants around the world who are involved in activities related to postharvest handling, packaging, cooling, shipping and storage of fresh fruits and vegetables. Who is Lisa Kitinoja? LISA KITINOJA Principal Consultant, Extension Systems International P.O. Box 3130 Quartzsite, Arizona 85359 USA Phone: (916) 708 7218 email: kitinoja@hotmail.com CURRICULUM VITAE EDUCATION Doctorate, Agricultural and Extension Education, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. December 1989. Major : Extension Education. Fellow, Center for African Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville. 1986-87. Doctoral studies in the Dept. of Horticulture. Specializations in postharvest handling and marketing of crops in developing countries. Master of Science, Vegetable Crops, University of California at Davis. June 1984. Thesis topic: Curing and storage of sweetpotatoes. Specialization in postharvest handling and marketing of horticultural crops. Master of Science, International Agricultural Development, University of California at Davis. September 1983. Bachelor of Arts, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachussetts. June 1980. Major: Biochemistry. WORK EXPERIENCE-- Agricultural Training and Extension Program Development Senior Technical Advisor- Fruits and Vegetables, World Food Logistics Organization (WFLO), Alexandria, VA. Feb 2008 to present. Provide input on international programs planning, proposal development and project assessments, implementation and evaluation. Planning and/or participation in postharvest workshops and cold chain development projects for South Africa, India, China, Iraq, Sub-Saharan Africa and Central America. Co-leader of the "Appropriate Postharvest Technology Planning Project" for Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, with Dr. Marita Cantwell of UC Davis, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). This completed project (2009): Assessed outcomes of 12 past hort projects in Egypt, Indonesia, Kenya, Ghana and India. Trained 225 persons in postharvest loss assessments and the CSA process. Assessed postharvest losses of hort crops in Ghana, Rwanda, Benin and India. Performed Commodity Systems Assessments (CSA) on 30 hort crops. Postharvest Consultant, Agland Investments, MCC Cape Verde Project. April 2008 to present. Conducted postharvest loss assessment and cold chain assessment for the islands of Cape Verde, developed plans for a Postharvest Services and Training Center (a model demonstration packinghouse and supplier of tools, packages, marketing advice and pre-cooling services) and Postharvest Training of Trainers program for 12 Cape Verdean professionals. Senior Associate, Postharvest and Quality Programs, Davis Fresh Technologies, Davis, California. August 2001 to 2006. Developed postharvest assessment tools for identifying quality and shelf life problems involved in handling perishables from the farm to the market. Training postharvest specialists in field assessments, energy use auditing, problem diagnosis during harvest, packing, cooling and shipping, postharvest technology trials and solutions, data analyses and reporting. Postharvest Consultant, USAID/CHF-International, CEDARS Project/ CEDARS Plus Project, Lebanon. April 2004 to 2007. Design and implementation of a formal survey on postharvest research and training needs of clientele of CHF-Lebanon, covering horticultural production, postharvest technologies and marketing aspects of horticultural crops. Development of a Training of Trainers program for Lebanese university faculty and extension workers in postharvest technology topics, including e-learning strategies, study tours and on-the-job training activities. Postharvest Consultant, ICARDA, Aleppo, Syria. December 2005 to 2007. Design and implementation of a formal survey on postharvest research and training needs of clientele of the International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA), covering horticultural production, postharvest technologies and marketing aspects of horticultural crops. Development of a proposal with Dr. Adel A. Kader, UC Davis, for enhancing ICARDAs efforts in the CWANA region by adding horticulture and postharvest topics to their existing mandate. Project Director, AERI-Egypt/El Shams, UC Davis/USAID/CARE October 2003 to March 2005. Managing the sub-contract and day to day operations for UCDavis and participating in the development of annual workplans for the USAID Agricultural Exports and Rural Incomes Project for small-holder horticultural producers, processors and marketers in Upper Egypt. Providing input into project planning and coordination, planning and implementing training of trainers programs and US-based technical study tours. Postharvest Technology Consultant and Trainer, USDA/AMS/TMP/SEA, Wash, DC. March 2002 to December 2004. Peforming a Postharvest Technology and Transportation Assessment in Ghana, West Africa, and developing a “Training the Trainers” program based upon findings. Trainees include governmental, NGO, and commercial horticultural professionals involved in export of fresh fruits and vegtables from Ghana to the U.S. and Europe. Evaluating the program showed that 87% of participants had implemented postharvest training programs of their own within 6 months of their ToT activities. Expert Consultant in Postharvest Technolgy, UN Food and Agriculture Organization Near East Region (FAORNE), December 2002 to June 2003. Participation in planning postharvest technology training programs for trainees from the near east and Mediterranenan region. Involvement as instructor in postharvest training in Jordan. Development of training materials, including CDRom of postharvest information and web-links, and manual of training methods suitable for postharvest trainers. Project Coordinator, Office of International Programs, University of California, Davis. October 1999 to October 2001. Coordinating communications, preparations and daily activities of the project, supervising staff assigned to handle UC involvement in the USAID/RONCO Agricultural Technology Utilization and Transfer (ATUT) Project in Egypt. Managed the project, fielding 25 UC personnel as they undertook more than 35 activities aimed at ensuring profitable and sustainable production, high produce quality and safety, improving Egyptian marketing and reducing postharvest losses for grapes, strawberries, melons and vegetable crops. Postharvest Technology Consultant, SCS-Group, Haryana, India. December 2000 to present. On-going association with India-based Agribusiness consultancy firm. Recent activities include: Assessment of current handling practices of private operators in the field, packinghouse, cold storage, in transport and market outlets, and providing postharvest management training programs for workers, company staff and managers. http://www.scs-group.com/scs/ Cold Chain Technical Consultant, Winrock International, Morrilton, Arkansas and Kupang, NTT, Indonesia. April- May 2000. Assessing the status of the “cold chain” for the USDA/AMS in the eastern islands of Indonesia. Collected data on fruit handling, road and marine transport and marketing practices, following the route from Java to Sulawesi, NTT and Irian Jaya. Developed a report proposing the establishment of a regional “cold chain association” of local horticultural shippers, processors and marketers for the purposes of postharvest training and quality management. http://www.winrock.org/fact/facts.cfm?CC=5209 Postharvest Technology Consultant, International Nutrition Program, UCDavis. Aug-Sept. 1999 Assessed postharvest losses in commercial and home-scale fruit and vegetable handling, storage and processing for the USAID Market Access for Rural Development (MARD) Project in Nepal. Designed and implemented a two-day workshop for project clientele encouraging improvemnets in fruit and vegetable handling, and provided recommendations for developing an Action Plan for Postharvest Technology. Provided on-the-job training for project staff in designing and doing postharvest demonstrations. Training Program Development Consultant, USAID/RONCO ATUT-Egypt Project. April 1999. Performed a training needs assessment for the Horticultural Export Improvement Association (HEIA) in Egypt; Designed a comprehensive "Training the Trainers" Program for HEIA, including staffing requirements, in-service training needs for staff and program content recommended for farm workers. Planning and Horticultural Training Consultant, USAID/Chemonics International/ACE-India Project. Jan to March 1997, July to August 1998. Lead the process of strategic planning and design of the Punjab Horticulture Postharvest Technology Center, including survey design, strategic planning meetings with the steering and advisory committees. Stakeholders included university faculty, government officers, extension agents, progressive horticultural producers, processors and marketers. Key goals and objectives: providing information, applied postharvest research and training activities aimed at helping growers to reduce postharvest losses, maintain produce quality and become more market oriented, thereby improving returns to growers. Follow-up activities include design and implementation of a Training the Trainers program and launch of the PHPTC (1998), hosting Punjabi scientist visits in CA (1999). Project Assessment Consultant, World Bank/Uttar Pradesh Diversified Agricultural Support Project (UP-DASP). 1995. Member of assessment team charged with determining the status of research and educational facilities and personnel skills related to postharvest handling and processing of a wide variety of horticultural crops in the state of UP, India. Designed and recommended in-service training programs for outreach personnel and upgrades of existing research and extension facilities of the three agricultural universities. (Team leader: Hamdy Eisa, World Bank, New Delhi). Project was recently funded and is set to run from 1999 through 2003. http://www-wds.worldbank.org/servlet/WDS_IBank_Servlet?pcont=details&eid=000009265_3980624142630 Planning Consultant, Department of Vegetable Crops, University of California at Davis. 1994-95. Developed a model for a proposed Vegetable Research and Information Center (VRIC) now successfully launched and housed at the University of California at Davis. Strategic planning involved interviewing and surveying over 100 university and industry stakeholders, working with a planning committee to determine needs, concerns and opportunities for enhancing linkages and improving cooperation among stakeholders, identifying common goals and obtaining consensus, setting long and short term objectives and recommending strategies for reaching those objectives. http://vric.ucdavis.edu/ INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITIES, TRAINING AIDS, WORKSHOPS and SEMINARS Invited Speaker, Ministerial Conference and Expo on Agricultural Science and Technology, June 2003. Presentation: “Training in Postharvest Technology: Economic Opportunties for Small-scale Horticultural Producers, Handlers and Marketers” during the session on enhancing horticultural competitiveness at the USDA/USAID sponsored conference. Agricultural and Economic Ministers representing 120 countries, major universities, NGOs and private organizations involved in agricultural development were represented. http://www.fas.usda.gov/icd/stconf/conf_main.html Postharvest Technology Training, International Association of Refrigerated Warehouses (IARW), South Asia. December 4-6, 2000. One day workshop on postharvest technology management for 60 participants for the IARW Conference “Developing India’s Cold Chain Infrastructure: Creating Critical Linkages in Perishable Foods Distribution.” Attendees included private sector operators of transport, cold storage, and food distribution companies, governmental personnel and financial institutions. http://www.agroindia.org/agroindia/more.html Horticultural Training Manager, Extension Systems Int’l, Woodland, California. June–Aug 2000. Coordination and implementation of a ten day postharvest short course and study tour for agri-entrepreneurs from India held in Davis, CA in collaboration with UCDavis, IARW and APEDA. Topics included harvest, packing, cooling, storage, processing, marketing and food safety topics, lab demonstrations, tours of postharvest operations in the Central Valley and Watsonville area. Also prepared training materials and provided instruction. Instructor, Short Course in Postharvest Horticulture, University Extension, University of California, Davis. Dec 1998. Presented instruction on socio-economic factors affecting postharvest food losses, extension methods suited for tackling postharvest problems and marketing fresh crops in China. Attendees included 15 governmental officers from Hebei province, China. Postharvest Technology Short Courses, USAID/Chemonics International/ Punjab Agricultural University, UC Davis/ Punjab, India. May 1997, and August 1998. Assessed postharvest losses of horticultural crops in Northern India; Prepared and presented a three day postharvest short courses for the horticulture industry in India with colleagues from the University of California and the Lousiana State University covering the postharvest biology and recommended technology for reducing losses and maintaining quality of fruits, vegetables and floral crops. Preparation included tours and video recording of practices used in fields, markets and processing facilities, and instruction included lectures, discussions, laboratory demonstrations and review and anayses of videos. Follow up work included curriculum development, laboratory design and developing reccommendations for future program offerings. Extension Education Consultant, Department of Pomology/UC Postharvest Outreach Team, University of California at Davis. 1993 to 1998. Updating written materials, development of translations and slide sets of selected extension publications. Compiling, writing and editing training manuals, newsletter issues and marketing materials, developing and presenting short course topics in postharvest handling and processing of horticultural crops. Developed and edited a field manual of small scale/low technology postharvest handling and food processing techniques for food handlers in developing countries (1993; co-author: Dr. Adel A. Kader). Compiled and edited 2nd Edition (1994), 3rd Edition (1995), Spanish Edition (1996), French Edition (1997). http://postharvest.ucdavis.edu Postharvest Short Course/Small -Scale, USAID/Chemonics International/International Education and Training Center (ITEC, UNEX, UC Davis)/Morocco. 1996 Designed and implemented a ten day short course for 20 extension personnel (field level technicians and supervising engineers) assigned to ORMVAT, Morocco. Course included lectures, tours, demonstrations and group exercises in French dealing with recommended postharvest handling and processing practices and commodity systems assessment methods for horticultural crops. (Co-instructor: Dr. Amar Kaanane, Department of Agronomic Chemistry, Instituts Agronomique et Veteranaire, Hassan II, Rabat, Morroco). Internship Coordinator, USAID/ International Training and Education Center, University Extension, University of California at Davis. 1995. Hosted a Tanzanian intern (a female agricultural researcher) during a two week postharvest workshop focusing upon small scale practices for handling fresh and processed horticultural produce. Workshop included lectures, tours of local farms, markets and processing facilities, demonstrations of reccommended technologies and contruction of models for curing root and tuber crops, on-farm storage, direct and indirect solar drying. Invited Speaker, International Postharvest Management Short Course, International Training and Education Center, University Extension, University of California at Davis. 1994, 1995. Development of a presentation entitled "Socio-economic, Cultural and Institutional Factors Affecting Implementation of Changes in Postharvest Technology" for the annual Short Course. Attendees were agricultural bankers, government personnel and agro-entrepreneurs from India, Africa, Latin America and Asia. Presentation draws on years of field work and focuses on factors which can decrease adoption of recommended practices. Instructor, Short Course in Postharvest Technology, University Extension, University of California, Davis. June 1993, 1994. Presentation on using appropriate extension methods to “make the link” among produce marketing participants as they identify and solve postharvest problems and market fresh crops. Attendees included 100+ U.S. and foreign horticultural industry professionals from commercial, academic and governmental organizations. Presentation served as the basis for Chapter 38 in the UCDANR textbook Postharvest Technology for Horticultural Crops. Postharvest Handling Seminar, Office of International Programs in Agriculture, Iowa State University. 1993. Developed and implemented a participatory learning session on recommended postharvest practices and small scale technologies for reducing food losses based upon the field manual Small-Scale Postharvest Handling Practices. Participants were Ecuadoran vocational agriculture teachers involved in a year-long training program. ACADEMIC/ PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education (AIAEE), Life Member. American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS), member, 1983 to 2002. CURRENT PROFESSIONAL AFFLILATIONS World Food Logistics Organization (WFLO), core member of the Global Cold Chain Alliance (GCCA.org). President: Bill Hudson University of California Postharvest Technology Research and Information Center (UC PTRIC), Davis, CA Director: Jim Thompson (530) 752 6167 HONORS/AWARDS • Gist Scholarship in Extension Education, 1988-89. Department of Agricultural Education, The Ohio State University. • Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, 1986-87. Center for African Studies, University of Florida • John Moran Memorial Grant-in-Aid, 1984. Department of Vegetable Crops, University of California at Davis • Miller Plant Science Award, 1983. University of California Cooperative Extension SELECTED PUBLICATIONS and PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS Kitinoja, L. (2003). Training in Postharvest Technology: A compilation on CDRom of postharvest training materials, demonstrations and references. http://www.postharvest.org/cdrom.html Kitinoja, L. and Kader, A.A. (2002). Small-Scale Postharvest Handling Practices: A Manual for Horticultural Crops (4th Edition). Postharvest Horticulture Series No. 8, Department of Pomology, University of California at Davis. http://www.fao.org/WAIRdocs/x5403e/x5403e00.htm#Contents Kitinoja, L. and Kasmire, R.F. (2002). Making the Link: Extension of Postharvest Technology, Chapter 38 in Kader, A.A. (ed), Postharvest Technology for Horticultural Crops (3rd Edition), UC DANR Publication 3311. pp. 481-509. Kitinoja, L. (2001). Postharvest Handling of Fruits and Vegetables intended for Cold Storage. International Association of Refrigerated Warehouses (IARW-India). 46 pp. Kitinoja, L. (1999). Costs and Benefits of Fresh Handling Practices. In: Kitinoja, L. (ed). Perishables Handling Quarterly, Special Issue: Costs and Benefits of Postharvest Technologies, No. 97: 7-13 Kitinoja, L. and Gorny, J.R. (1999). Small-Scale Postharvest Technology: Economic Opportunities, Quality and Food Safety. Postharvest Horticulture Series No.21, Department of Pomology, University of California, Davis. Kitinoja, L. (1995). Improving Post-Harvest Technology for Horticultural Crops in Uttar Pradesh, World Bank Working Report (Project Appraisal Document # 17279; April 27, 1998). http://www-wds.worldbank.org/servlet/WDS_IBank_Servlet?pcont=details&eid=000009265_3980624142630 Kader, A.A. and Kitinoja, L. (1994). Postharvest Handling of Perishable Crops, In: Humphrey, S.E. et al, Small Farm Handbook. University of California: Small Farm Center. pp. 109-116. Miller, L.E. and Kitinoja, L. (1993). Do Extension Adult Education Participants Use What They Learn? NACTA Journal 37 (1):30-33. Kitinoja, L. and Maximay, S. (1992). Factors Influencing Readiness for Participation in Educational Programs for Agricultural Development: A Case Study of Trinidad and Tobago. A paper presented at the 8th Annual Conference of the Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education (Columbus, Ohio; May 12-16, 1992). Kitinoja, L. and Layman, J.D. (1991). Promoting International Extension Activities in Ohio: Results of the Evaluation of a State In-Service Education Program. A paper presented at the 7th Annual Conference of the Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education (St. Louis, MO; March 28-30, 1991). Kitinoja, L. (1990). Research and Extension Programs for Improved Postharvest Handling Practices in West Africa: Another Way to Impact Food Production. A paper presented at the Symposium on Sustainable Agriculture for Africa, Center for African Studies (Columbus, Ohio; May 25-26, 1990). What is the cost? There is no charge for mentoring services. Just send an e-mail or mail a letter to Dr. Lisa, and she will do her best to answer your question or point you in the right direction. Many training materials are available via e-mail at no charge. A CDRom packed full of practical training materials is available at a small fee (to cover the cost of copying, postage and packaging materials). Training CD Rom ***** TRAINING IN POSTHARVEST TECHNOLOGY ***** Copyright 2009 Cooperative Ventures, USA